Free quartet concert set

Group to play at ACU on Saturday

This weekend will be a busy one for members of the Permian Basin String Quartet.

The quartet will perform a free concert at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Williams Performing Arts Center.

Its members also are members of the Abilene Philharmonic, which performs at 8 p.m. Saturday.

Then the group has a concert Sunday afternoon in Midland.

The quartet is the professional quartet-in-residence of the Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale.

The group is led by violinist John Madura, who began playing at age 3 and has played professionally since he was 6.

Madura is the concertmaster of the Midland-Odessa Symphony & Chorale and an adjunct faculty member of the music department at Abilene Christian University. He drives to Abilene on Fridays to teach violin and viola classes at ACU.

Members of the quartet are Madura, first violin; Katy Gillan, second violin; Melissa Madura, viola; and Amy Huzjak, cello.

The Saturday afternoon concert will feature several short pieces by John Dowland, Sergei Prokofiev's second quartet, and Johannes Brahms' first quartet.